This Quickstart receipe for Qemu assumes a recent FreeBSD release (stable/13 or newer), and provides an example configuration for running arm64 (aarch64) FreeBSD guest on an amd64 FreeBSD Host. Concepts can be applied to other architectures as desired, but syntax and capabilities will vary.
- Install qemu
pkg install qemuorpkg instal qemu-nox11. Latest pre-built package release as of this writeup is 8.1.0 - Sufficient disk space (50+GB) on a mounted FreeBSD Host disk (e.g.:
/qemu-datain this example)